Liberals Tossing Voters Under The Bus
From the Rep. John Spratt (D-SC) campaign school of thought, Washington Post ultra-left columnist Eugene Robinson picks up on the growing meme liberals are already using to rationalize what many expect and polls indicate could be a tsunami of brutal losses for Democrats in November: It’s the voters’ fault; the public simply being too ignorant, afraid, temperamental, angst-ridden or befuddled, take your pick, to make the proper choice at the polls.
It doesn’t have anything to do, you see, with the misguided policies and reckless spending that has taken place under the Obama Administration and the Democrat’s reign of Congress. It’s the voters’ fault.
Spratt’s campaign communications director explained it thusly, in the midst of a tough race with Republican challenger Mick Mulvaney: “If Osama bin Laden ran in this district as a Republican, he would get 38 to 40 percent of the vote in any election year. This is a very Republican district. So you’ve got that, plus this tea party angst against any incumbent in the world right now.”
Eugene Robinson picks it up with a column headlined “The spoiled-brat American electorate”:
In the punditry business, it’s considered bad form to question the essential wisdom of the American people. But at this point, it’s impossible to ignore the obvious: The American people are acting like a bunch of spoiled brats.
This is not, I repeat not, a partisan argument. My own political leanings are well-known, but the refusal of Americans to look seriously at the nation’s situation — and its prospects — is an equal-opportunity scourge. Republicans got the back of the electorate’s hand in 2006 and 2008; Democrats will feel the sting this November. By 2012, it will probably be the GOP’s turn to get slapped around again.
The nation demands the impossible: quick, painless solutions to long-term, structural problems. While they’re running for office, politicians of both parties encourage this kind of magical thinking. When they get into office, they’re forced to try to explain that things aren’t quite so simple — that restructuring our economy, renewing the nation’s increasingly rickety infrastructure, reforming an unsustainable system of entitlements, redefining America’s position in the world and all the other massive challenges that face the country are going to require years of effort. But the American people don’t want to hear any of this. They want somebody to make it all better. Now.
Um, Obama has been in office how long and has accomplished what? I mean aside from ramming through a disastrous healthcare boondoggle, blowing through trillions of dollars of misguided spending, and skyrocketing the national debt.
This November isn’t about spoiled-brat voters stomping their feet for magical, immediate change – although, recall that’s exactly what the Chosen One promised; it’s about rescuing this country from a complete train wreck, before it’s too late.
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